Microsoft beats Apple, files iPod patents

[Humdizzy]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2005/08/16/iPod_patents20050816.html

Microsoft beats Apple, files iPod patents
Last Updated Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:57:14 EDT
CBC News

There are likely some red faces at Apple Computer.

Apple took too long to file a patent on part of its blockbuster iPod music players, so Microsoft jumped in and beat Apple to it.

Wow...

http://www.google.com/search?q=Micr...ient=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

 

[dpk87]

damn microsoft, they just want to own everything.

 

[Jordyn]

Thats kinda funny, never heard of that happenin before (tho Im sure it has) lol. I guess thats what u get when u wait til the last minute to do stuff like that.

 

[aween]

they are getting now $10 per sold ipod. well thats a new way to make billy boy happy :P

 

[Humdizzy]

Does this mean that any of us with the money could of done the same and made 10 bucks an ipod sold?

 

[viciouscircle]

lol :P

 

[Joey]

That is just plain wrong, they just want all of the money for themselves, and they are succedding.

 

[DJ-Sound]

Its poor on apple to wait to file a patent.

 

[primacomputer]

This kind of thins happens all the time. Patent reviewers are complete idiots who will rubber stamp anything. But applying for a patent, obtaining a patent, and enforcing a patent are all different things. Microsoft may get a patent but they won't be able to enforce it.

 

[Element]

This isnt a suprise to to me, Microsoft seems ro own everything.

 

[ThreeD]

I wonder why apple hesitated with the patent registration for so long

 

[admans]

WTF man...damn those apple people....they are such a loosers..

 

[matrics]

Funny... I thought M$ owned a large chunk of Apple... 20-something%

 

[TLDnetworks]

I think this will clear up some confusion...

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3527281

As reported by AppleInsider, Apple's patent for a "graphical user interface and methods of use thereof in a multimedia player" was rejected in July. The patent examiner cited an earlier application by Microsoft in the ruling.

The Microsoft patent in question covers a system of automatically generating playlists from media collections by "seeding" them with both desirable and undesirable items.